![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hilsum documents Colvin's personal life from her happiest moments to her darkest hour. The biography, however, is more than a tale of war and death. Six years later, an American judge determined she had been murdered. “She was specifically targeted because of her profession," said Judge Amy Berman Jackson, "for the purpose of silencing those reporting on the growing opposition movement in the country." Hilsum said she used to think: 'if Marie is here then this is the right place' to be as journalist.Ĭolvin was killed in Baba Amr, Syria in 2012. Her friendship with Colvin was one formed on the frontline. "Most of the journalists left East Timor because it was incredibly dangerous," said Hilsum, "Marie had no intention of leaving." From Syria and Sri Lanka to Kosovo and East Timor, she covered conflicts through the lens of human suffering. Her biography, In Extremis, tells the story of her trajectory from young American school girl to the tenacious, determined journalist in some of the world's most dangerous war zones. "She really cared about the people she reported on." "She would go in further and stay in longer," said Hilsum of Marie Colvin, the Sunday Times war correspondent. ![]()
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